GitHub user twalthr opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6387
[FLINK-9846] [table] Add a Kafka table sink factory
## What is the purpose of the change
This PR adds a Kafka table sink factory with format discovery. Currently,
this enable the SQL Client to write Avro and JSON data to Kafka. The
functionality is limited due to FLINK-9870. Therefore, it is currently not
possible to use time attributes in the output.
## Brief change log
- Decouple Kafka sink from formats and deprecate old classes
- Add a Kafka table sink factory
## Verifying this change
Existing tests for the `KafkaTableSourceFactory` have been generalized to
support sinks as well.
## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts:
- Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): no
- The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with
`@Public(Evolving)`: yes
- The serializers: no
- The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): no
- Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its
components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: no
- The S3 file system connector: no
## Documentation
- Does this pull request introduce a new feature? yes
- If yes, how is the feature documented? not documented yet
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/twalthr/flink FLINK-9846
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6387.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #6387
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commit d94bb86b2b6e08d711c30c7da7fc2c521c17d4ec
Author: Timo Walther <twalthr@...>
Date: 2018-07-23T06:12:00Z
[FLINK-9846] [table] Update KafkaTableSink class structure
commit 7328bb2a45070201b14500106af503e6519f1056
Author: Timo Walther <twalthr@...>
Date: 2018-07-20T10:35:57Z
[FLINK-9846] [table] Refactor KafkaTableSourceFactory to
KafkaTableSourceSinkFactory
commit bfdac8f9a5950c6df882ac44fbd7d5e8358658c2
Author: Timo Walther <twalthr@...>
Date: 2018-07-23T04:47:58Z
[FLINK-9846] [table] Add a Kafka table sink factory
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